the british who want independence from america with calls to close a u.s. spy base that's being lined up as a part of a star wars type missile shield. europe's open borders hit a dead end as denmark brings the barriers back down angering its colleagues who say violates the cornerstone of euro unity. and. officials in media say the arms embargo has been breached again as both from qatar carrying weapons for the rebels are reportedly intercepted. and as japan reveals almost half the children living near the fukushima plant have been exposed to radiation we look at how the crisis is leading to a new nuclear solution bring china.

international news live from moscow you're watching r t with me arena joshie first independence day march with a difference this time it's the british trying to drive the americans out of a major military facility is due to become part of a missile to fan shield similar to the eighty's star wars project but activists say it's a militarization of space and that washington is wrong to keep the british in the dark about what goes on there or am it reports. it's no ordinary fourth of july celebration at this top secret u.s. military base here it's a little piece of america in the heart of the u.k. so yorkshire dales where it is who are demanding independence from america this symbolizes what's wrong with the special relationship between britain and the united states here we have a base that's on u.s. control which the british government and british people have no control menwith

hill is the largest intel gathering and surveillance base outside the us there are thirty two satellite dishes housed inside the huge golf ball structures which can eavesdrop on telephone calls faxes and e-mails from around the world it's been operational since the one nine hundred sixty s. but now it's set to become part of the controversial missile defense shield to alert the u.s. to any ballistic missiles as in poland and the czech republic where the u.s. also planned to site bases locals who worry that having the facility here will put the area in danger heightening the risk of an attack by anyone who wants to disable the shield but unlike in eastern europe the government here has put up no fight a tall in fact it doesn't even know what goes on here there isn't a single british official in parliament or in the intelligence services who could give you a full picture of what is happening in this space it's the culmination of former

u.s. president ronald reagan's dream as his statue is unveiled in london on monday menwith hill embody soiree can envisage dimly early warning missile detection system that was dubbed the star wars program it secretive based far away from u.s. soil and some say it's a step towards the u.s. domination and militarization of space people demonstrate here campaigning for the closure of this space and the others like his around the country they want to weekly. in this land and bring it under the control of the british government and its people it's not working they as men withheld becomes policy of the missile defense shield it's building another goes to satellite structure bringing the total to thirty three despite some local and national offices should and growing not reducing the u.s. is influence in europe. menwith hill yorkshire russia's wanted a joint european missile shield solution for some time but it's still falling on

deaf ears with a nato as was proved at a summit in sochi the alliance also won't guarantee its own project will not target russia later we hear from a leading american scientist who says obama's team are rolling along with bush era policies. bush plan was for discarded by president obama when he came into power there was a lot of hope that the new system would be more agreeable to the russians but now that we have actual numbers instead of being less of a concern going from the bush administration to the obama. this is raised all sorts of red flags in russia. denmark is to bring the barriers back down on its borders with germany and sweden the moves not going down well with the e.u. colleagues to say it violates europe's much heralded open border agreement r.t. is reading the reports on how it signals wiring time as i have for the blog. the

danish officials insist that this is to prevent drug flow and illegal migrants from entering the country but the move has been regarded as a bad sign not just by the left wing politicians and the opposition in denmark itself but also has been severely opposed to why the e.u. officials in brussels and especially by denmark's neighbor germany they insist that this is a violation of the good agreement of the open borders in europe and they also say that this is not a wise move at all to make during a particularly volatile time for the european union when countries are bickering over border disputes and over cash and money issues some believe that this actually may signal the end off united europe but the danish officials insist that this will law of cause and the damage to the free flow of traffic tourists and transportation across the border we have to remember that this is not the very first border

dispute of course the problem of really go particularly bitter one right now for the european union earlier this year france and italy have entered a rather bitter dispute over the flow of illegal migrants across their borders and we also have to take to keep in mind the fact that the extremely volatile situation in northern africa is not going to help the situation in any way since most of the migrants who do come to europe who do flood countries like denmark belgium or italy and france actually do come mostly from the north in the african region so this particular move by the danish officials may actually send quite a worrisome signal to other european countries who may also follow suit even those who are reporting there still have you this hour here in our team the agony is not over for dominic strauss kahn the former i.m.f. chief is about to face fresh sexual assault charges we hear how there is likely to be a very different kind of foul play in the jaime claims. but the russian children.

they're rare skin disease who are deprived of state support for their condition now one parents taking the fight to the heart of the medical establishment. levy an official say they have intercepted two boats from qatar carrying a cache of weapons for rebel forces in the country it said the load included about a hundred belgian made assault rifles along with thousands of rounds of ammunition so far only the french admit to supplying weapons to levy an anti-government forces brian johnson thomas a former arms trafficking expert for the un security council says it's a dangerous violation of the arms embargo. now it seems to me very strange we're going about it and i thought the arms embargo was laid down by the security council was quote trying to do is to both sides who are involved we know that for example some of the literature and some somalia when she libya for training within the last two or three years just documented we have to fly records and everything else so it

seems strange in many ways the whole western support of some of the rebel groups in libya must be questioned because in some cases i think we are effectively all going on. for months on nato is protected intervention in libya has yet to yield its desired result even as the alliance battles accusations of violating its u.n. mandate but political blogger recross of believes a peace mission was never high on the coalition's priority list. thirteen thousand made away or missions over a country of six and a half million people including what nato itself acknowledges as five thousand combat missions if it's not a war. you know that this is not simply a question of the are protecting libyan civilians from the over the government violence and so forth this is a conservative long term military action nato it's the world's only military board it's one that is in charge of the two major wars in the world right now those in

afghanistan and libya i think you know we can dispute you know minor points of contention but i think we should not be confused about what the nature of the merkel are the through the organization. middle east expert bomb a.k.o. things the west rushed to support the opposition in media without really assessing food they are. couldn't believe that it didn't actually represent transition council has enough and you can see and you know needs to include the new political configuration going i don't think so and i also think that most need to remember that hong kong is through these points of powerful conversation with bob make ale is on our website right now at r.t. dot com. a french writer is to file charges of attempted rape against former international monetary fund cheve dominic strauss kahn she claims she was attacked in two thousand and two but his lawyers say they will sue for slander it's a merged new york sex assault case teeters on collapse as prosecutors question his

accuser's credibility a former white house executive believes that x. official could be a victim of political foul play. the french press has reported that strauss kahn said before he ever came to the united states. that he expected sarkozy to pay some french woman a million euros to bring six charges against him and he said. that was because he was leading the sarkozy in the polls for the french presidency and that he'd stress khan said that would be sarkozy's response and the french press has taken a serious i think he got in trouble because he began questioning the i am ousts use of its power to force the cost of the bailout of the banks onto the backs of just ordinary people he started questioning that he was meeting in the united states

with the economist joseph stiglitz who was a big critic of that way of bailing out the banks and i think he was sending signals that upset the financial community so it may have helped him with ordinary people a but it kind of made him a target for. the establishment. meanwhile the new hat of the international monetary fund is officially beginning the job former french finance minister christine lagarde one of the overwhelming backing of the i.m.f. lacks weak having beaten the mexico central bank governor but there is a full entry for the first woman to take the funds top job with the e.u.'s financial struggles and greece on the critical list. max kaiser and state herbert say there is a lot in common between the greek economic troubles and america's mounting debts here's what's to come in the kaiser report later today. he said many times the

i.m.f. is after the u.s. next s. and p. one of the rating agencies who work hand in hand with these international banks stirrers managing director john chambers spoke to reuters and he said quote if the u.s. government misses a payment it goes to di di di di di that's lower than triple c. and that's what they say greece is worth triple saying well why doesn't the greek government come out with a ratings report saying america's debts were the deed therefore so your american debt you need a place to put the cash but greek debt and we'll give you a play all the options on the acropolis or so's you don't need it i am there for more blood for the colinear so all the acropolis regarded are some of the storm. radiation has been detected of almost half of all children living near japan's fukushima facility authorities are continuing to study the health effects of the

nuclear crisis which sent safety shutters around the world some like germany have already pledged to close all of its plants but there are countries convinced there is a safer alternative as henry morton reports from beijing. with the global spotlight firmly back on the safety of nuclear power following japan's tsunami and the problems at the fukushima daiichi plant china is looking at spearheading efforts to make the industry safer and much safer the chinese are investing millions in research into reactors powered by the element for him a metal proponents say as common as lead and one which despite some concerns would lead to power plants with fewer safety issues as well as other benefits. thore and based reactors certainly have advantages release from the story and is greater than from the rhenium the by products from using thore and less toxic than from uranium and it's much harder to make weapons from those by products ploy.

public outcry following the problems at the fukushima plant led to beijing putting a freeze on approvals of all new nuclear power stations and safety checks at the twenty seven currently under construction however with chinese electricity consumption growing at more than five percent a year and its current reliance on fossil fuels to generate that unsustainable it's unlikely the crisis in japan will dampen china's thirst for nuclear power. it's impossible for china to give up nuclear energy and china needs to make changes to its energy structure which is closely linked to the need to reduce pollution carbon emissions and the overall direction of chinese development other new energies have no advantage in either techniques or resources. no one in china is under any illusions that the country desperately needs to find alternative clean ways to generate electricity the current reliance on coal which provides some eighty percent of chinese energy needs cost the economy more than two hundred

billion dollars a year through air pollution alone and while beijing is investing heavily in other alternative energy supplies nuclear power is seen as the best bet by the chinese government the problem facing authorities is trying to convince a sometimes and jittery public that nuclear energy is a safe alternative so they are investing millions of dollars into foreign research like this in order to try and lay those fears to rest in so doing they may be showing the rest of the world a new path to clean energy henry morton r.t. beijing. aarti dot com is there whenever you want for more on the stories we're covering here let's take you through what's lined up for you know. how we ran over a helicopter warship or a russian m.p. takes to the heavens to get to the church on time but causes misery at the monastery. plus violent clashes between cossacks and the police in ukraine's crimea leaving dozens injured in a brawl over demolishing an orthodox cross reports at r.t.

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a brief look now at some other stories from around the world britain's prime minister is in afghanistan for a two day visit to k. troops there but david cameron's plans to celebrate progress in fighting insurgents are being marred after a soldier was captured and executed by the taliban cameron's visit comes just a week after. that all british combat troops will pull out of afghanistan by two thousand and fourteen. venezuelan president hugo chavez has made a surprise return home during his treatment for cancer in cuba coincides with venezuela's two hundred independence day anniversary he addressed cheering supporters in the capital but says he won't be able to join the celebrations it was thought would be home for months down to remain as to whether he's made

a full enough recovery. has sentenced its former president in a percent to fifteen year prison term for trafficking drugs weapons and archaeological artifacts a fortnight ago banal he was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to thirty five years behind bars he fled to saudi arabia back in january after a month long uprising requests for his extradition back to tunisia have not been answered. they are either for god or a few the russian children suffering from a rare and incurable genetic disease which can leave them badly scarred and in acute pain until now has been virtually ignored by the medical establishment but one mother is hoping to change that there are reports. she likes dancing and no one would guess the amount of pain lisa goes through to make these simple movements lisa has a rare genetic condition epidermal this is below or that makes her skin less than

as a butterfly when a slight touch or a hug can cause painful blistering that takes a long time to heal leaving the skin even more fragile. around the world sufferers like lisa are known as butterfly children however in russia it's as if they don't exist right you can use the doctors simply don't know of the disease and when you tell them what it is they might have heard of it but they don't know how to deal with it she knew lisa is only five but she already knows her diagnosis better than any doctor her mother knows there is no cure with proper medication her daughter could lead an almost normal life but it's way too expensive while using it it's such a rare disease that it's pretty much been forgotten about there's no state support so there's no money and no specialists. general manager is a dermatologist and admits she's become a specialist by default no one else is dealing with patients but the mothers say

her advice can conflict with what they've learned from abroad. thought well it's a very complex disease with so few patients suffering from it any doctor that would take it up would have to become a very narrow specialist i myself am tied up in many other places so i don't have much time for these patients. two year old nasty is a clear example of what good care and access to proper treatment can do for a butterfly child her mother says she's probably the only girl in russia who from the very first days of her life was taken care of properly according to international standards when she was twenty five days old i took her away from one of the best maternity wards in the country her stomach and feet were all and the marks of the doctor's fingers are still her skin back then she did look like a newbie patient ever since nice to has lived a life of protection her medication costs roughly one hundred thousand rubles more than three thousand dollars per month she has three people constantly looking after

her including her mother julie says life expectancy for such kids in russia is very low and shoot anything to make her daughter's life long unhappy. she's my beautiful alongst back to princess and if there is a pea that can hurt my brain so i'll take them all away no matter what the cost or julie is also behind a newly created foundation to help other children now people from all over the country are calling her and it seems the number of suffering children is far greater than the previously estimated one hundred s. for liza she bravely takes on life with a smile despite her deteriorating state as a sign of trust she told me her biggest dream there may be few children with this disease in russia but each of them needs all the support they can get they may have learned to live with their condition but just like lisa the old dream of one day waking up to a life without paying. r.t.

moscow what time now for a business of day two of us stay with us. hello that's right time for your business update everyone welcome the russian backed north stream gas supply project has hit a problem a german court has suspended construction of a pipeline which would connect it with the you are pm gas network people in the german town of luna both claim the pipeline is not secure enough stream are now considering an alternative approach and there's believe it's not a big problem but there may be other similar objections. time for a quick check on the markets oil is slower to solve the international energy agency says its release of strategic bird reserves is porking the decision came last month in order to compensate for the supply shortages and the shut down of we've been critics it's the weather analysts say the impact will be i.e. a move meeting less than expected as well as still close to where it was before the

decision. and asian stock markets were swimming between small gains and losses on tuesday closing off to a five day rally meet fears of an imminent tightening chinese monetary policy and a similar picture in europe stock markets here are flat in trading traders for a cautious hold the outlook for greece and for the workforce that china could hike interest rates as soon as this weekend. and here in moscow the r.t.s. and the minus six are what this hour let's not have a look at some of the individual share moves on the ice it's energy may just on the decrease the solid dragged by lower oil prices gas almost one percent down what's now just entering the lower three percent fee to be bank is continuing its losing streak taken from one day it shows up point eight percent lower the sound proscriptive was bucking the trend edging up a cent. continue to tie or oil prices are keeping russian which is on

a steady climb but getting most of the leaves stocks traded locally as well as abroad could provide some up site. the feel like the storks which a similar kind of treaded to the local market. in the offshore markets might have some potential upside so after last week the restrictions on a.d.r. trading was removed to feel like the equity switch trade with the most discount to radio ours will have of course better performance also some but in new ross telecom shares which still trade with a solid discount in comparison to the all drug rose telecom share i would probably single out as barbaric which started trading in london. looks like the stock will be popular among foreign investors saw i would be. in the financial sector. the wildfire season is underway in central russia and people are stocking

up on protection and provisions which are all just protect the effects will spread further than normal and that smoke could reach moscow over the next few days insurance companies say they getting ready to fill the heat. their problem culpable last year the main problem was that a lot of people didn't have their property insured therefore we saw in the media twenty to thirty percent increase in demand and growth was one hundred twenty percent in the first quarter of these here alone with people more actively insuring countryside to real estate last year we paid one hundred and eighty million rubles befalling cases so now we are preparing for a new wave that is so let's pause and russia's high tech is welcoming its first president. signed joint tax benefits which all hopes will spur development activity the head of the skolkovo foundation outlines the tax breaks that are wishing to stop those produced the most importantly the status of a skulk of

a resident implies tax benefits which in turn means a lower social rate tax as the rate of profit tax plus there are certain privileges for export and import operations moreover the stages of a skulk of a resident gives the right to collaborate the skulk of their foundation which is supposed to support resident. somewhere just may come when you go to sell the business for now another business update in less than an hour's time and you can also logon to a website for more stores dot com slash business. you're .

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